Family of the suborder HAPLORHINI (Anthropoidea) comprising bipedal primate MAMMALS. It includes modern man (HOMO SAPIENS) and the great apes: gorillas (GORILLA GORILLA), chimpanzees (PAN PANISCUS and PAN TROGLODYTES), and orangutans (PONGO PYGMAEUS).
    

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An orang-utan, a hooded serpent and an ape sitting on the outskirts of a tropical rainforest. Etching, 1744.

How humans evolved / Robert Boyd, Joan B. Silk.

The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution / Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending.

Evolution and the Darwinian theory of human descent viewed from the standpoint of a multiple primate ancestry by Charles K. Mills : papers and discussion of the paper by Dr. Mills / Dr. Francis X. Dercum, Dr. William B. Cadwalader, Dr. J. Hendrie Lloyd and Dr. J. Parsons Schaeffer.

Catalogue of skulls of man and the inferior animals in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin.

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How humans evolved / Robert Boyd, Joan B. Silk.

The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution / Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending.

Evolution and the Darwinian theory of human descent viewed from the standpoint of a multiple primate ancestry by Charles K. Mills : papers and discussion of the paper by Dr. Mills / Dr. Francis X. Dercum, Dr. William B. Cadwalader, Dr. J. Hendrie Lloyd and Dr. J. Parsons Schaeffer.

Catalogue of skulls of man and the inferior animals in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin.